A bunch of wannabe writers checked into a writer's retreat, hoping that the isolation will help them produce bestselling books along with newfound fame and fortune.
Fooling themselves, they tried to imitate a condition of the famous literary gathering on the shores of Lake Geneva where a bunch of writers wrote ghost stories as a form of entertainment. This gathering produced the legendary Dracula and Frankenstein.
During their time at the retreat, each of them uncovered the story of their lives. Haunted is a compilation of 23 stories that personally made me ask myself how a guy can have such a wild and outrageously brilliant imagination.
From the story of a guy whose amsturbation adventures went awfully haywire, to a reflexologist who uses her skill to induce orgasm and to assasinate merely by rubbing feets, to a cook who murders food critics and then blackmails the knife company who produces the knife that he uses as murder weapon, this book is compacted with the most absurd stories that will raise the hair behind your neck.
Palahniuk is a truly intelligent being. Each and every sentence that he writes is a definite form of indulgence. I would put Haunted on a must-read list, if i were you. His stories are amusing even if you read it over and over again.
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